Pemetrexed versus erlotinib in pretreated patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer: A Hellenic Oncology Research Group (HORG) randomized phase 3 study

Cancer

Volumn 119, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 2754-2764

  Karampeazis, Athanasios ^a   Voutsina, Alexandra ^b   Souglakos, John ^b,c   Kentepozidis, Nikos ^d   Giassas, Stelios ^e   Christofillakis, Charalambos ^f   Kotsakis, Athanasios ^b,c   Papakotoulas, Pavlos ^g   Rapti, Ageliki ^h   Agelidou, Maria ⁱ   Agelaki, Sofia ^b,c   Vamvakas, Lambros ^c   Samonis, George ^c   Mavroudis, Dimitris ^b,c   Georgoulias, Vassilis ^b,c  

^a 417 NIMTS Veterans Hospital   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^d Leof P Kanellopoulou   (Greece)

^e IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^f 401 Military Hospital of Athens   (Greece)

^g THEAGENIO CANCER HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^h SOTIRIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

ⁱ SISMANOGLIO HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

EGFR mutation; erlotinib; KRAS mutation; non small cell lung cancer; pemetrexed; pretreated patients

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; ERLOTINIB; FOLIC ACID; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; PEMETREXED;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER STAGING; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUTROPENIA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE K RAS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SQUAMOUS CELL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUMOR CELL; TUMOR GROWTH; VIRUS ONCOGENE; VOMITING;

EGFR MUTATION; ERLOTINIB; KRAS MUTATION; NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER; PEMETREXED; PRETREATED PATIENTS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID ANTAGONISTS; GLUTAMATES; GUANINE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; QUINAZOLINES;

EID: 84880570204     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28132     Document Type: Article

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